Mini-Reviews

Artist: Holobody

Album: Riverhood

Riverhood opens with two distant echoed voices in solemn harmony. The song, aptly, is called Unfold. Finger-snaps join, then foreground voices: Luke Loseth, tenor, sings a long, agile melody while his sister Charlotte, soprano, wordlessly decorates around him. Piano enters, heavily echoed; so do less-identifiable drones. It’s a gorgeous track. It merges smoothly into Hurricane Season, what hip-hop might have been if invented by Brian Eno to help his 10-year-olds play when they weren’t in aggressive moods: […]

Yes! Those Men Without Hats. 30 years after “The Safety Dance” and 25 years after penning the new Tide detergent commercial jingle (um, that would be “Pop Goes the World”), the Canadian synth-pop group led by Ivan “Godfather of Monotone” Doroschuk reconvened for their first new studio album in nearly 10 years. The album is called Love in the Age of War, and this song about sticking with your life and “holding your sons and […]